Cheshire: maybe not the MOST exciting outdoors environment in the UK...

I'm realising that, living in Cheshire, being outdoors is not usually going to be about big hills and vast open skies, nor about bagging the ... dale Horseshoe or doing sections of some well known trail. This means that the content of my blog is not what I expected, being less about the scenery and more about the creatures which live in it.

Today a walk around Swettenham offered some lovely opportunities to notice the bees feeding on comfrey flowers:

and on wild roses:






Damselflies are rather harder to capture with a phone camera but here's my best effort, note to self: take a camera next time (I know, I've said that before).

It might be a red-eyed damselfly like this one (but it's only a possibility given how blurry the picture is...). It's interesting to think that damselflies were around when the dinosaurs were alive, in fact they're among the oldest creatures on earth, first appearing around 300 million years ago. And the facts that 5 new migrant species have been recorded in the UK and other species have migrated North are seen as evidence of rising temperatures, according to The Natural History Museum.